by María Montesinos · B de Bolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788413143637
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«Un destino propio» is the historical novel by María Montesinos, published by B de Bolsillo in paperback (608 pages, in Spanish).
In the summer of 1883, Micaela, a young teacher, arrives in Comillas, on the Cantabrian coast, and meets Héctor Balboa, an Indiano who has returned from Cuba with a great fortune and is building a school for boys. Micaela fights for girls to receive an education too, while an attraction grows between them. Set at the end of the 19th century, the novel portrays the first women who raised their voices against a society that did not want to listen to them.
It is the first book in the author's «Un destino propio» series, which continues with «Una pasión escrita» and «Una decisión inevitable».
For readers of historical fiction and fiction with female protagonists, especially stories set in late 19th-century Spain.
